Awaken Resilience: Where the Clinical Meets the Creative

Converging Photography and Neuroscience to Rewire the Brain

A 3-Hour Continuing Education Course for Mental Health Professionals

Are your clients struggling with:

• Seeing themselves through what they've survived instead of who they are now?

• Doing meaningful inner work but still being held back by old narratives?

• Self-doubt resurfacing when they try to step into new dreams or seasons?

• Feeling capable on the outside but uncertain on the inside?

• Losing connection to their sense of worth after trauma, illness, or major life change?

If so, you’re not alone—and neither are they.

You’ll leave with practiced, neuroscience-informed tools that help your clients integrate the work they’ve already done and begin to see themselves differently.

You’ve helped clients do the deep inner work.

So why do so many of them still feel stuck?

Survival reshapes the brain. Old narratives can remain in place long after they’re no longer true. Even after years of therapy, insight alone often isn’t enough.

Clients can understand their story… and still struggle to see themselves differently.

What if the brain needed more than insight to change what it believes is true?

This course explores what happens when the brain is given something new to reference.

Hosted by the FIORIA Institute, this in-person CEU training introduces a neuroscience-informed approach to identity restoration through visual narrative. Drawing from over two decades of developing the FIORIA Photography Method, we’ll share how music, movement, personal narrative, and intentional visual anchors can support neural-level change in ways cognitive insight alone cannot.

This is not therapy.
And it’s far more than photography.

It’s a structured, multi-sensory experience designed to help the brain recognize truth at a deeper level.

To see what this experience looks like in practice, including client stories and visual outcomes, explore the Rising Phoenix Experience: https://fioria.us

EVENT DETAILS

DATE: Friday, May 15th

TIME: 10am-1pm

WHERE: FIORIA, 10400 Frisco St. Unit 303, Frisco, 75033

📌 Registration Deadline: Monday, May 11 (end of day)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: https://givebutter.com/ceu-awaken-resilience

CEU COURSE FORMAT

Duration:
3 hours (in-person)

Includes:
Interactive exercises, client testimonials, visual case examples, and live Q&A

CE Credit Eligibility:
This course offers 3 instructional hours. A Certificate of Completion will be provided.

Therapist-Ready Tools:
You’ll leave with neuroscience-informed exercises you can integrate into sessions immediately.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

• How to give the brain something new to reference using multi-sensory exercises clients can repeat on their own

• Visual techniques that help clients see who they are now, not who they were in survival

• Movement and music-based exercises that support shifts beyond cognitive insight alone

• A walk-through of the FIORIA Photography Method with real client stories and results

• Insights from our 21-day pilot study tracking shifts in mood and self-belief

• A preview of our current case study with a Lifeologie therapist who specializes in eating disorder, exploring how visual anchors support identity restoration

• And a behind-the-scenes look at how we’re beginning to measure cognitive and neural shifts using Brain Gauge technology

ABOUT YOUR CONTRIBUTION

The suggested contribution for this 3-credit CEU event is $35 per person, or $70 if you'd like to sponsor someone else to attend.

In addition, contributions from this event support the ongoing work of the FIORIA Institute, our nonprofit dedicated to researching and expanding the impact of the FIORIA Photography Method and Rising Phoenix Experience—specifically how visual anchors and multi-sensory integration support healing, resilience, and long-term change.

Your generosity helps make both this CEU event and the research beyond it possible.

Learn more about the nonprofit here:
https://fioriainstitute.org/

OUR BIGGER VISION

While the FIORIA team does not provide psychotherapy, our work has been developed in collaboration with renowned neuroscientists and licensed therapists who share a common belief:

People deserve to feel joyful and free — no longer defined by what they survived.

Our goal is to equip mental health professionals with tools that help clients not just understand their strength, but see it, anchor it, and integrate it into everyday life.

WHO'S LEADING THE EXPERIENCE

This course is led by Me Ra Koh and Brian Tausend, co-founders of FIORIA and FIORIA Institute.

For more than two decades, they have developed a photography-based process that supports healing and identity restoration. Over the last six years, they have deepened and refined this work through collaborating with neuroscientists and therapists to structure the method around how the brain rewires and integrates new self-perception.

Me Ra has spoken nationally for 25 years on inner healing and sexual assault recovery, including to audiences of up to 20,000, and is the author of six books. Together, they have created a transformative experience that draws clients from across the country — empowering them to visually reclaim their resilience and step into their greatness.

This event is hosted through the FIORIA Institute, the nonprofit advancing this research. Learn more here:https://fioriainstitute.org/